The Joker, however, is trying to go back to the original version in THE BATMAN #1 (1940).
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And yeah I agree.  I guess if their goal is to make it even more grounded than "grounded" versions of Batman, then Riddler just wearing green is pretty wacky.  But that's my problem with the villains.  If they're so watered down that they don't resemble the characters in any meaningful way, just have this be a show where Batman fights organized crime and no costumed villains appear at all.  I think the quality would be exactly the same.

To be fair, I haven't seen the last episode of season 2.  Maybe Joker is more Jokery there.

I also found it very odd that the whole first season led up to Batman saying (spoiler), but then season two just ignores that growth.

Anyone else?

Certainly, live action film can be very rich; RussianCabbieLotteryFan is always talking about how he adores the remaster of BACK TO THE FUTURE where all the colours where ampled up to pop off the screen rather than looking like the desaturated 80s film that it was before. But I would say that SUPERGIRL benefits from a brown, grayed out world, because when Supergirl finally puts on the uniform, it looks vivid and in stark contrast to the dark world around her.

I guess when I say adapt it, I'm referring to the artwork.  The art in Woman of Tomorrow is so striking, and it seems like all that color got washed out for the movie.  A YouTuber I like quite a bit, Nando v Movies, said the worst thing that could've happened to Supergirl was Project Hail Mary.  That movie has a sequence that is so bright and colorful and would've fit in perfectly in a Woman of Tomorrow adaptation.  Then the movie comes out and it's all brown and gray.  I haven't seen it so maybe that's a function of the story, but the story in Woman of Tomorrow is heavy and sad and depressing a lot, but there's still plenty of color and wonder.

And I agree that the dialogue in the book wouldn't translate, but it's also mostly voiceover.  A lot would have to be translated to dialogue, but I think a lot of the feel and look of the story could've been preserved.  Maybe it was.  I hope to see it next week.

SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW is... Tom King has an extremely stylized approach to dialogue that reads to me as unnatural and strained. I found it really awkward on his BATMAN run as well. ("Cat." "Bat." "The boat." "The street." "The boat." "The street.") He also has a tendency to use time skips that I find incredibly disorienting and difficult to follow.

People really like King's work. It's obvious that it has its merits and has won many fans; I'm just not one of them. I absolutely do not see this style of writing translating effectively to live action films. His dialogue is not designed for an actor to deliver it. Whatever its strengths or flaws, King's comic book writing is an experiencing in reading the words atop the images, and film is not about reading, so much had to change.

I really like the movie. I'm not saying anyone has to like it, but I doubt the level of hatred that exists for it is about anything within it because so few people actually saw it.

But I'm hoping to see it in the next couple of weeks.

The vitriol slung towards it is bizarre to me as, judging from the box office, not many people actually saw it and whatever's caused the movie to fail is not within the movie itself since the financial failure is based on people not actually watching it.

My sense, looking at the bland posters and bland trailers and laughable lip-gloss tie-in is that, like BIRDS OF PREY, the Warner Bros. marketing department has lost the ability to market a movie for women.

So I think whether WB survives or not, Gunn will be given a chance because he's been successful so far.  Not billion dollars but still profitable and successful with fans and critics.  Now if Supergirl is a disaster or if Man of Tomorrow is a disaster, all bets are off.  But no matter who owns WB, I think Gunn will get an opportunity.

How many reboots did X-Men have with FOX? One?

What success did Sony's reboot of Spider-Man really have if THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN II saw this iteration of the franchise shuttered with all spinoffs and sequels terminated and Sony joining Marvel for a coproduction?

The only news I see if Gunn leaving DC due to a potential sale of WB is absurd clickbait websites offended by any project where men and women and non-binaries and transgender people are treated as equals.

If Gunn does a good job, DC Studios might simply be left alone. But regardless, even if WB were sold today, we wouldn't see any changes until 2028.

At the same time, I'm not in a position to stop my government from doing anything they want, so that part does sort of ring true. I would say the end of Season 2 suffers from needing the Salvation prison to be left open as a plot point for SUPERGIRL, MAN OF TOMORROW, LANTERNS, etc.

I think if the answer is "Checkmate is in no position to take down Flag" then that should have been acknowledged.  In an episode that was already significantly longer than the normal episode, I think they could have spent two minutes with a scene between Peacemaker, Harcourt, and Adebayo that went over the unlikelihood of a direct assault on ARGUS.  Maybe something as simple as.

PEACEMAKER
Okay, what are we doing about this prison?

HARCOURT
Nothing, for now?

PEACEMAKER
Nothing?

ADEBAYO
They could have hundreds of people moved to that prison by now.  How can we do nothing?

HARCOURT
A week ago, we probably could've caught them by surprise.  But Fleury says they've increased security a hundred-fold.  No one gets in or out unless Flag is present personally.  It's a fortress.

ADEBAYO
We could still...

HARCOURT
We could, but we'd lose people.  I think we have a plan, but we're going to need to be patient.

PEACEMAKER
In the meantime, let's do as much good as we can.

I don't know, something that at least acknowledges that they want to do something but just can't at this point.  Or, like I said before, don't let them find out about the prison.  Maybe Checkmate's first mission is to figure out what Flag is up to.

Either way, I think they're allowed to be excited that they're back together and happy and have a path, but the ending certainly implies that they don't care about the prison.  And they immediately pay for that if that's the case.